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connecting up the pieces.

Hello.

I have been building the cabinets for the last month and now I am ready to connect together the equiptment. I am a pretty good carpenter but not so good at the connecting part :)
So I have a speakercraft starlet 9 for the center, starlet 6's for the L and R dipole 5's for the rear. The starlets have the tweeters and the woofers seperate so I have 6 sets of speaker wires. OK, So I have a McIntosh 7106 for the L,R and C and a MC122 for the rears. The pre-amp is a marantz AV8003. Here is where I have hit the wall. The 8003 has ONE RCA input for the L, R and C and whats coming out of the back of the McIntosh for the L, R and C is TWO RCA jacks. Can I use a Y connector or will I lose sound quality? Should I be using the XLR section and a Y connector instead of the RCA connector section? Is there another way I should be hooking this all up? HELP.

Thanks in advance.
steveny

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I checked the back of your 8003,there is input for R+L(2inputs)
centre(1 input),R+L surrounds(2)+1 sub input.
Sometimes the back of any receiver the lettering is very small and rca inputs very close together.
Type in marantz 8003 on your computer and you will see them.
Or perhaps the manual has a picture or diagram of the back.
I have sometimes inputted into where I should have outputted.
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